Chapter 276: Cronies
“Uh-huh.” Empress Dowager Lu did not raise her head.
Zhao Su picked up the tea, took a sip, looked away, and then retracted her gaze, “Speaking of going to the Taoist temple last night, I heard a piece of gossip. That Taoist said that the Ministry of mandarins Tang Yu, and the Ministry of Public Works Cheng Lang, actually buy snacks because of each other smashed each other’s store, to this day are not open it.”
Sweeping in the ink stone on the tip of the pen stopped, Empress Dowager Lu raised her head, that always calm eyes have a brief fluctuation.
Zhao Su took in her eyes, but on her face as if nothing had happened: “His Majesty also wanted to eat the Tang family’s dim sum yesterday, but as a result, he didn’t even get to eat it.”
“Why did you smash the store?”
The ink on the tip of Empress Lu’s pen, snapped and dropped a drop in the ink stone, similarly raising a slight wobble.
“I heard that it was because the Cheng family had previously repented of their marriage contract with the Tang family, right?” Zhao Su then said the reason for the incident in passing.
The fluctuations in Empress Lu’s eyes became even more pronounced, and although they faded extremely quickly, it was completely impossible to ignore them.
“Yes.” A moment later she lowered her eyes, re-sweeping the tip of her brush over the edge of the ink stone a few times before writing.
The hall was suddenly quiet, and Zhao Su suddenly didn’t know what to say, so after sitting for a while she quietly got up and walked out.
When she reached the canal, her steps slowed down and she turned back to look in the direction of Ci Ning Palace again.
She was already certain that Empress Dowager Lu did not know about the Tang Cheng family. Empress Dowager Lu was a successful empress of her generation, and in this time and space, it could even be said that, by virtue of her identity and outstanding ability to cross the border, she was once considered the empress of no one before or after her.
But in the original so meticulous and capable of her, just from the rear position to the position of the Queen Dowager three years, actually even a pair of generals under their own banner turned against the enemy do not know, this is a tiger snooze, or with the original novel finished, her Mary Sue heroine aura is also in the decline?
And if so, then why was she able to support the king of Qin to the emperor when he was still alive?
Without some strength, she shouldn’t have been able to do this so smoothly.
“Lord Zhao, Lord Fang is waiting for you at the Ministry of Rites.”
The little eunuch who came from somewhere hurriedly came to deliver the message.
Zhao Su collected his thoughts, nodded, and walked towards the East China Gate.
Returning to the Ministry of Rites, Fang Qingxue greeted her and said, “Ma Weiqing has moved out of the Ma family with his wife and daughter.”
“How?”
“Sun Xiulan recently every three times on the horse family to visit his daughter, should be more or less with a little demonstration of the meaning of the mother of the horse yesterday to be Sun Xiulan left, then ran to Pang Shuyun room outside the finger cursing Samuel cursing, Pang Shuyun gas cried, alarmed the school in the horse Weiqing, the horse Weiqing came back to argue with his mother, and finally by the mother of the horse slapped two times, and after the couple moved out. ”
“Then how do they not go to the Pang family?”
“Sun Xiulan was sent to pick up, but Ma Weiqing can not put face, afraid of people say he into the family, Pang Shuyun also want to follow her husband, so it is so.”
Zhao Su thought for a moment: “Then what did Sun Xiulan say? Is there no need for us to mediate anymore?”
“Sun Xiulan asked us to help Ma Weiqing get away from the Ma family.” Fang Qingxue lightly shook her head, “The key to this is that she hasn’t obtained Ma Weiqing’s consent.”
Zhao Su stared, as a woman can be so tough is of course a good thing, but when it comes to other people, act so tough, is it a bit strong? They naturally could not help her to do this kind of thing, this is the relationship between the clan things, a bad can let the official to her and Fang Qingxue sue to relegate to the civilian it!
As the Flower Moon Society’s leader, is also considered the image of the Flower Moon Society and the world’s women’s role model, the dynasty secretly do not know how many people waiting to pull the handle, Sun Xiulan this radical behavior, but they are very unfavorable.
She thought up: “This successive Quai Master’s recent situation, the Empress Dowager know?”
“In the past, it was Shi En Shi Taolong who led the people responsible for supervision. There have been no problems either.” Fang Qingxue said here frowned and stroked up his beard, “Speaking of which, when the late emperor was here, the Flower Moon Club was running very normally, and many unfavorable reputation things were started in these years. Sun Xiulan also became more and more powerful in these years.”
Zhao Su was slightly stunned: “Is there any inevitable connection between this?”
“I can’t say. It just makes people lament that after the late emperor left, the empress dowager is a daughter, after all, there are some things that are not convenient to do.”
Is that so?
Zhao Su recalled Empress Dowager Lu’s previous appearance of not having freshened up. Whether it was Lu Ling’s portrayal in the original story, or the Empress Dowager’s appearance that she had seen with her own eyes, this great heroine was always strict with herself.
She does not comb makeup appearance is not scary, admittedly there is another kind of beauty, but let a person doubt, this period of time of the Empress Dowager Lu’s spirit is always a little low, a few times are topped with powder can not be suppressed by the dark circles under the eyes out, today is even do not even comb makeup, this is how it is?
But obviously she crossed over to just see her, and a while ago to her and the emperor’s marriage, she is not still glowing?
“I first draft a document to reply to Sun Xiulan, this is something we can not do!”
Fang Qingxue said as he returned to the back of the case.
Zhao Su looked at him and said, “Lord Fang used to be the late emperor’s subordinate, so you should be familiar with Tang Yu, the minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Cheng Lang, the minister of the Ministry of Public Works, right?”
Fang Qingxue looked up, “Some friendship.”
“Do you know about the feud between the Tang and Cheng families?”
Fang Qingxue inhaled, “I heard about some of it. The Cheng family repented of their marriage.”
“The Cheng family’s is a daughter, right? He’s not afraid of damaging his daughter’s reputation?”
“First of all, as a minister promoted by the Empress Dowager, in fact, it is also also did not take this point too seriously like the Shih clan, secondly, the Cheng family didn’t say why, but there are people outside who guessed that the Cheng family’s daughter had something, as if it was still a little bit related to the Tang family.
“Anyway, it is also a rumor, I do not know whether it is true or not, and the Tang Cheng two families have a tacit understanding that they have not been mentioned to the public, this matter is not much to say.”
A big girl to be married has an accident, the marriage will not be closed, it must be about chastity. But it was still related to the Tang family?
“After making such a mess, they didn’t have anyone to complain to the Empress Dowager?”
“Not too clear. However, before the Emperor ascended the throne, had been promised by the Empress Dowager, will not intervene in political affairs, this kind of disputes between officials, I think the Tang Cheng two families is to sue, but also to sue the Ci Ning Palace to, and, the Empress Dowager is afraid that is inconvenient to deal with, and can only be handed over to the Emperor. Standing in the position of the Tang Cheng two families, facing the emperor and perhaps there is inconvenient to speak inside, in short, the empress dowager does not know, is not strange.”
Zhao Su could not speak.
She knew that Empress Dowager Lu had promised the Emperor not to meddle in political affairs, but she was a Mary Sue Empress Dowager, so for her own cronies, it was reasonable for her to be concerned, right?
She began to think back from crossing to now, Empress Dowager Lu has been fighting for the way forward for the Flower Moon Society, when the novel said that she helped the late emperor to recruit talented people, and later all became her fans, but so far, sticking to her side to support her reforms from the beginning to the end of the only chat a few people.
A Shi En, he has gone, a Fang Qingxue, he is the back in.
A Luo old master, said with her deep friendship, but as soon as she returned to the capital began to hit the emperor’s idea, want to send the family miss as the empress.
The rest naturally could still count a few, but seriously counting, this battlefield was too far from the battlefield when she was the Empress when she called out for help.